The format shifting and the change of reader implyies some loss in the culture.
We see it with the VHS to DVD (not all movie will be tranferred ), will see it with DVD to blu-ray, then with full digital distribution
The web gives the same issues, with the loss of rendering engine (a page rendered with netscape will never look the same with modern browsers), all those Internet Explorer quirks will fade, plugin content are near impossible to read (with the rise of webGL for example, VRML seems to have disappeared).
However I like to see my now defunct page back when I wanted to be a 3D graphics artist instead of a developer like I am today (not giving up the link, I was really bad at that time).

In Preserving Our Digital Pre-History I nominated Jason Scott to be our generation's digital historian in residence. It looks like a few people must have agreed with me, because in March 2011, he officially became an archivist at the Internet Archive. Jason recently invited me to visit th...